The Lorax

I took Brennan to his first movie at the theater today. I knew I wanted to try to take him either this spring or summer and when I saw that The Lorax was still in theaters, I decided to go ahead and give it a try. He's really into movies at home, although he doesn't sit still for very long to watch them. Unfortunately, our local theaters don't have matinees during the week, so we had to drive about 30 minutes to a new theater, but it was totally worth it. It was right next to a Panera, so we had a lunch date there first. Then we headed to the theater. Lunch went a little faster than I expected, so we arrived at the movie earlier than I had planned. I was hoping to miss the previews so B wouldn't have to sit any longer than necessary, but it still worked out fine.
The theater in Lisbon was super nice. Brennan's ticket was free and we were the only people watching The Lorax. That's one reason I wanted to see a matinee because if it wasn't crowded, I was going to let B walk around the front some if he needed to get up. The theater had stadium seating, which was perfect. There were about five rows on the floor, then a big open area before starting the stadium seating. We sat in the first stadium seats which was nice because it was open for B to walk right in front of us, but we weren't in the very very front seats. I brought B's portable high chair, bought some popcorn, and we were ready to go. He was good boy and even went to the potty for me before the movie started. He really seemed to like it. Since we were there for the previews, some of those were really loud. He kept saying, "All done. Bye bye." But once the movie started he was happy. He ate a ton of junk food, but stayed in his seat for 1.5 hours. When the movie was almost over he wanted to sit in my lap, so I moved him there, but then he wanted to get down. I just let him and he went back and forth between sitting on the bottom step of the aisle and walking around the front. Definitely a successful first theater experience.
I had to document it of course, so here are some iPhone pics!

Sitting on the bottom step once he started to get antsy.

Walking around a little - with his Ring Pop!

Headin' home!

Oh and movie was cute! I liked it too!